From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,10e2dbe22d2887d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jerry Petrey Subject: Re: Article on Ada (the person) Date: 2000/10/10 Message-ID: <39E339AE.8388D300@west.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 679762223 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8rko04$a1h$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 971192751 138.126.254.210 (Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:45:51 EDT) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:45:51 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > I had always heard that "Ada Byron is commonly considered the first > programmer". But I had never really heard a good rationale for this. > > There's a great page/online book on the history of computing at > http://www.warbaby.com/FG_test/comp_history.html , which has a couple of > very enlightening paragraphs on the subject. > > -- > T.E.D. She even wrote a program for computing Bernouilli's numbers to run on Babbage's machine. Too bad he could never get the hardware to run. Isn't that just like hardware engineers - always holding up our software :-) Jerry PS For a good biography of Ada (including many of her own letters to Babbage) look at the book "Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers". -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Jerry Petrey -- Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Member Team Ada & Team Forth -- Raytheon Missile Systems -- NOTE: please remove NOSPAM in email address to reply -----------------------------------------------------------------------------